Competence to Consent and Its Relationship With Cognitive Function in Patients With Schizophrenia

Decisional capacity to consent is an emerging ethical and legal concept, and is closely related to self-determination of patients facing important medical decisions or research participations. Recently, the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool (MacCAT), a semi-structured interview consisting of four...

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Main Authors: Norio Sugawara, Norio Yasui-Furukori, Tomiki Sumiyoshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00195/full